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Show INFLUENZA CAUSES POSTPONEMENT OF I MANY GRID GAMES ; IN MIDDLE WEST Twenty or Thirty Odd Foot- ball Games Scheduled for Today Are Called Off Throughout the Country CHICAOO, Oct 12. SUgger-ing SUgger-ing nmlef military regulation., regula-tion., ' Muldla Weatnrn football waa dealt another blow lant niftht vehm a aeore of eollfRfa and uniTeraitiea canceled gridiron rontesU aoheduled for today bc-rauae bc-rauae of the epidemic of tipatiiah influenza. Nearly twenty of tha thirty odd gamea achcduled were ' ealled off. Uporta rrlv4 In Chlraao Inrttcat.d that aotna of tha lmM had hn can rl1 becaue. mimtwri of trama were aliahtly tndtapnMd with eolde. olh.r. because be-cause of pmbablo poor attendance due to tha epidemic, and atlll othere for tha plain reaaon that It la feared crowd. , rauaa s enread of tha dlenee In aplla af tha free air. am of tha trn taama In tha Weatern iwifmtn, bowerer. will ao Into action. Illlnola will face tha Ureal l.akea naval tralnlnc atatlon eleren In tha moat Im. eortant eontrat of tha day, whlla Chl-rao. Chl-rao. Minnesota, Ohio atata. Inrdua and Wisconsin will anaaaa minor taama In eamre to put tha elcv.na on edge fur tha "bla Ian" ohamplonahlp a salon, Chicago will play a team from tha f'hlcaao Bchool of Bnelane, whlla Wla-roii.ln Wla-roii.ln will fare Hlpon colle aa Ita op- oonent. -MMile atata will play Kennleoo at Columbua. Purdue and Depauw will clh at Lafayatta, and Mlnnaaota wlU hook up with aa all atar aaaroaation. Tha Mlhlan-ramp (uatrr vama, aa wall aa tha Nabraaka-Camp Funaton oon-tat, oon-tat, waa oallad off bacauaa of Influanaa. Among othar oontaat oanoalad for tha aama raaaon wara: Indlana-Wabaah. Iaw-Coa. Caaa-Ohlo WralAyan; Mtaaourl-Kanaaa Agglaa. Wratarn Raaarva-Akron, Hutlar-Fort Ban Jamin Harrtaon, Panaaylvanla.nraka, and Cornall-Amaa. |